WYD 1993, August 11-15, Denver, Colorado, USA

Theme: "I came that they may have life and have it abundantly" (Jn 10:10)

With the passing of time the threats to life do not lessen. They grow enormous. Not just threats from the outside, from the forces of nature or from some 'Cain' who murders 'Abel'--but threats programmed in a scientific and systematic way. The twentieth century has been a time of massive attacks against life, an unending series of wars and a continuing slaughter of innocent human beings. The false prophets and the false teachers have been very successful."

"There is spreading, too, an anti-life mentality--an attitude of hostility to life in the womb and its last stages. Precisely when science and medicine are achieving a greater capacity to safeguard health and life, the threats against life are becoming more insidious. Abortion and euthanasia--the actual killing of another human being--are hailed as "rights" and solutions to "problems"--an individual's problem or society's. The slaughter of the innocents is no less sinful and devastating simply because it is done in a legal and scientific way."